The pains of Enrico Letta
"Sberle" to Enrico Letta and Pd also by the Pope on migrants and opposition to the Meloni government. The Scratches of Damato
Poor Enrico Letta does not like one, even though he pretends nothing has happened, or almost nothing, and relaunches on Repubblica "the congress path that opens today" to lead "to the birth of the new Democratic Party and the choice of the leadership that will guide it in this time of opposition and the construction of an alternative to the right ”.
Forced to leave the Roman peace procession on Saturday to escape the insults that rained down on him as a "murderer" and "warmonger", convinced that it is necessary to continue to help Ukraine militarily in resisting the Russian invasion, the secretary of the Democratic Party sought to recover consensus and positions on the left by joining the shouts against the government for what is happening in Catania. Where from the volunteer ships loaded with migrants rescued in their escape from the African coasts, the new Minister of the Interior lets those most in need of aid get off, demanding that the countries under whose flags they were collected at sea take care of the others. "It is unacceptable that only minors and fragile people are saved", said the secretary of the Democratic Party, sharing the refusal to leave the opposite even with appeals to the TAR from ships with shipwrecked people still on board.
Unfortunately for Letta, at this point, a protest from the Pope came upon him like an avalanche against the European countries that still intend to unload only on Italy, as on Greece, Cyprus and Spain, constituting the southern borders of the Union. the problem of the rescue and reception of migrants. “The policy of governments – Pope Francis told reporters verbatim, while flying on his trip to the Persian Gulf – up to now has been to save lives. I believe that this government – he added, speaking of the Italian one still fresh from installation – has the same. I don't think I want otherwise. It wouldn't be human. I heard that he has already landed children, mothers, the sick. But Italy, this government or another, cannot do anything without an agreement with Europe. Responsibility is European ”.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, in Egypt for the UN summit on the environment, naturally hastened to thank the Pope, I would say twice. One for the position on the problem of migrants and another for the more general evaluation of the Italian political situation.
“The new government – the Pope said in response to a specific question – begins now. I wish him the best. I always wish the best to a government because a government is for everyone. I wish him the best so that he can take Italy forward. And the others, those opposed to the winning party, who collaborate with the critics, with the help … a collaborative government, not a government where they take off the floor under their feet and make you fall if you don't like one thing or the other . Please, on this I call to responsibility. Is it right that Italy has had twenty governments since the beginning of the century? But let's stop with these jokes ”.
The Pope's words – Giorgia Meloni must have thought when reading them – are valid for the opposition but even more so for the various components of the majority. Where the phase of the right-center that began with the strong electoral prevalence of Meloni's party over the others was not at all digested by the center-right claimed every day, for example, by Silvio Berlusconi. Whose Forza Italia has just been abandoned in Milan by Letizia Moratti. Which in March will run for the presidency of the Lombardy region with the so-called third pole of Carlo Calenda and Matteo Renzi.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/le-pene-di-enrico-letta/ on Mon, 07 Nov 2022 07:15:37 +0000.